Tag: Olusegun Obasanjo
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A leader like Jacinda Ardern – By Azu Ishiekwene
A leader like Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand doesn’t come in tens. Not even in twos. And so, it was such a bright day on October 26, 2017, when she took office as New Zealand’s Prime Minister.
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2023 countdown (4): Buhari, Obasanjo right on foreign interference – By Ehichioya Ezomon
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo allegedly wrote a letter to the British government, urging it not to interfere in the February-March General Election in Nigeria.
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Peter Obi can tackle corruption, insecurity, Obasanjo insists
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has reiterated his choice of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party Peter, insisting that he possessed qualities of the kind of leader the country needs at this time. Obasanjo spoke while featuring on an interactive session of the Experiential Leadership in Africa (TEL-Africa), as part of activities held on…
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PHOTOS/VIDEO: Ex-President Obasanjo embarks on 18km walk
Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo embarked on an eighteen (18) kilometres walk on Monday in Abeokuta, capital of Ogun State, western Nigeria.
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2023 countdown (2): Obasanjo turns Tinubu into frenzy – By Ehichioya Ezomon
In his self-appointed role as the conscience and guardian of Nigeria, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has always inserted himself into the electoral process, in order to influence its outcome.
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Pope Obasanjo’s message – By Chidi Amuta
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has once again done what he is reputed for. He has cast a big stone into Nigeria’s brackish political pool. The splash is all over the place. Like a papal encyclical, Obasanjo’s new year day’s endorsement of Labour Party’s Mr. Peter Obi for the imminent presidential election has hit the political…
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The trouble with Obasanjo’s wish – By Azu Ishiekwene
I’m sure he expected the firestorm. As is his custom, he primed and released it to explode at his own time and season. If the letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo endorsing Labour Party’s Peter Obi had gone unnoticed, uncriticised, and un-replied, then it would not have been Obasanjo’s letter.
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Why I ignored Obi/Datti movement to join Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organization – Bwala
The spokesperson for the Atiku, Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation, Daniel Bwala has revealed that former president Olusegun Obasanjo is the brain behind Obi/Datti movement, saying that Obasanjo poached him but refused and then chose to join Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP).
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Peter Obi: Obasanjo’s endorsement – By Promise Adiele
The creative impact of the epistolary literary mode has considerably waned in the 20th century. Popularized in Africa by Senegalese writer Mariama Ba through her novella So Long A Letter, the epistolary mode penetrates social fabric, ex-raying the relationship between two interlocutors – the writer and reader.
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Skullduggery as OBJ claims moral authority, writes letter to youth – By Magnus Onyibe
Former president, general ( chief ) Olusegun Obasanjo,OBJ inadvertently revealed his agenda or motive for endorsing mr Peter Obi when he wrote in his 1st January sensational letter to Nigerian youth goading them to vote for Mr Peter Obi as president on 25 February this year. Referring to Mr Peter Obi, he wrote: “In other…